Show Notes
Napoleon continued to sweep all before him - on land. But at sea, it was a different story.
Prussia decided to join the allied coalition, and imediately regreted it. Which meant that Alexander had no other choice but go to war with the French.
But that would all, literrally end in tears and Napoleon and Alexander agreed to a treaty - which on paper looked advantageous to both but in hindsight, just papered over the cracks. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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It's 1813 - Napoleon is back in Paris and he has put together a new army.
In the sixth and final part of this min-series we follow the remnants of Napoleons Grande Armée as they plod they plod their way, half-starved and half-frozen, back towards safety.
Napoleon had sat in an empty, burned-out Moscow for weeks waiting for a response from Alexander.